This is the event of the year for France. And Emmanuel Macron thinks that the French will “integrate the Olympic Games” in Paris “in their choices” in the anticipated legislative elections and will not want leaders who “are not ready at all”, he declared to the press, on the sidelines of the G7 near Bari in Italy on Thursday.
“I think they don’t want to have an Olympic Games that are looking bad,” underlined the Head of State in view of the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7, completed less than three weeks before the Games. Paris Olympics (July 26 – August 11).
He implicitly targets Bardella
The French will be “attached to ensuring that there is continuity” with officials “who prepared these Games” and “not people who are not ready at all”, he insisted, implicitly aiming for his opponent of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, who could access Matignon. Furthermore, Emmanuel Macron “does not believe” he is weakened internationally, despite the dissolution of the Assembly and this threat of cohabitation with the far right.
“My interlocutors are all democratically elected officials. They all said: It’s courageous,” he told journalists. Will aid to Ukraine be threatened in the event of cohabitation with the National Rally? “France’s word is committed by the President of the Republic,” he replied.